FINLAND FACES FURTHER ECJ COURT ACTION OVER SNUS
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL FINLAND'S alleged failure to crack-down sufficiently hard on the sale of oral tobacco in its autonomous Åland Islands region has prompted the formal warning of potential further legal action by the European Commission. It is threatening a request that Helsinki receive daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000s until the islands comply with European Union (EU) directive 2001/37/EC, which bans oral tobacco from the EU. The Commission has found fault with a regional law implementing the directive, because it only bans the use of 'snus' rather than oral ...
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